Category: Food & Cooking

Several weeks ago, I was walking Reggie when we bumped into a woman walking a Maltese named Max. The woman’s name was Jenny, and she told me that she owned the restaurant called “In a Pigs Eye” on Derby Street. I’d eaten there a few times and never had a bad meal. As we got… Continue reading Pigs Eye Brunch

I was having lunch yesterday with my coworkers (a Friday thing) at the Bugaboo Creek Cafe in Burlington. They were telling me about the “moose juice” they have, which is a pineapple infused vodka that’s supposed to be really good. I wasn’t impressed by the concept as they seemed to be. After all, it’s just… Continue reading Infusion

I put together another soup tonight. I used two potatoes, two leeks, an onion, half a bag of carrots, a head of cauliflower, and some parsley. All of this got chopped up, tossed with some canola and olive oil, salt and pepper, and then roasted. Then it went into the magic bullet with some simmering… Continue reading Another Soup

I was in the grocery store tonight, and they had some good tomatoes. Actually, the basil hit me first. I chopped up a yellow bell pepper, an orange bell pepper, an onion, and a whole bunch of tomatoes. This got tossed with some olive oil, a bit of canola oil, a little bit of chopped… Continue reading Roasted Tomato Soup

I talked to my mom today and told her I was going to do pumpkin creme bruelee and pumpkin ice cream for Thanksgiving. She said that she’d also have to do something chocolate since her brother won’t eat pumpkin and they always make something chocolate for him. My first thought was that he could bring… Continue reading T’Giving Plans

I had fun making the pumpkin creme bruelee. I had quite a bit of uncooked custard left, so I threw it in the fridge the idea of making ice cream out of it later. When you think about it, they’re both pretty much the same thing, just prepared differently. The ice cream came out really… Continue reading Pumpkin Ice Cream

I bought a new kitchen toy today, a blow torch! Well, it was part of a creme brulee kit, but it’ll do. It’s a cute little kitchen torch that will suit my needs rather well. Now I have some creme brulees in the oven. Lets see how these work out.

One of the challenges of travel is coming home to an empty refrigerator. The only thing in my fridge that was worthy of consumption was some diet coke and some Parmesan cheese. So last night on my trip to Trader Joes, I picked up a few things, keeping in mind that I’m leaving for Pittsburgh… Continue reading Crustini